A year, when one of the oldest commercial corporation in North America, Hudson's Bay Company, co-founded Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas Company ( HBOG ) with Marland Oil Company.

After he left Dead Kennedys, he took over the influential independent record label Alternative Tentacles, which he had co-founded in 1979 with Dead Kennedys bandmate East Bay Ray.

* 1978 – Peter Sunde, Swedish businessman, co-founded Flattr and The Pirate Bay

In 1997, he co-founded the Tampa Bay Coalition for Peace and Justice, which focused on the use of secret evidence and other civil rights issues in antiterrorism and immigration acts adopted in 1996.

They co-founded the Bay Area Argentine Tango Association ( BAATA ) and published a journal.

The East Bay Express, which serves the San Francisco Bay area, was co-founded in 1978 by Nancy Banks, a co-founder of the Chicago Reader, and editor John Raeside.

In 2001, he co-founded Bay Nature, a nonprofit quarterly magazine on the natural world of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Berkeley Systems was a San Francisco Bay Area software company co-founded in 1987 by Wes Boyd and Joan Blades.

Zeitz founded the Bay Area Math Meet in 1994 and co-founded the Bay Area Mathematical Olympiad in 1999.

Klees also co-founded the Municipal Gas Corporation in 1990, and served as its executive vice-president until 1997.

The Seattle Gas Company ’ s production plant located on Lake Union, now known as Gas Works Park, was co-founded by one of Seattle ’ s foremost pioneers, Arthur A. Denny.

* 1893 – Roy O. Disney, American businessman, co-founded The Walt Disney Company ( d. 1971 )

He co-founded the Hong Kong conglomerate Jardine, Matheson and Company.

On November 3, 1911, Swiss race car driver and automotive engineer Louis Chevrolet co-founded the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in Detroit with William C. Durant and investment partners William Little ( maker of the Little automobile ) and Dr. Edwin R. Campbell ( son-in-law of Durant ) and in 1912 R. S. McLaughlin GEO of General Motors in Canada.

In 1983, Hung co-founded another production company, D & B Films Company Ltd (" D & B " being short for " Duk-Bo "), with Dickson Poon and John Shum.

In a desire to create more jobs in 1887, Bare co-founded the Roaring Spring Blank Book Company, which became a primary customer for his paper, and later generated electrical current for residential service until the 1920s.

His grandfather, Harry Marston Haldeman, co-founded the Better American Federation of California, the The Oz Film Manufacturing Company, and the gentleman's club, The Uplifters.

In 1949 he co-founded the Greek Dance Theatre Company with the choreographer Rallou Manou.

After graduation, Schwimmer co-founded the Lookingglass Theatre Company.

After graduating in 1988, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in theater and speech, Schwimmer co-founded the Lookingglass Theatre Company.

In 1946 Finch co-founded the Mercury Theatre Company, which put on a number of productions in Sydney over the next few years, as well as running a theatre school.

Batsheva Dance Company co-founded by Martha Graham and Baroness Batsheva De Rothschild in 1964

Charles Henry Dow (; November 6, 1851 – December 4, 1902 ) was an American journalist who co-founded Dow Jones & Company with Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser.

He graduated in 1849 from Union College in Schenectady, New York, where he became a member of the Sigma Phi Society and was employed in various businesses in New York and the South, including the American Express Company, which had been co-founded by his father, John Warren Butterfield, an owner of the Overland Mail Company, stage-coaches, steamships, and telegraph lines.

The latter was staged by the Thin Language Theatre Company, which Sheen had co-founded in 1991, aiming to further Welsh theatre.

Chamberlain co-founded a Los Angeles-based theatre group, Company of Angels, and began appearing in TV series in the 1950s.

He designed computer-oriented toys and games for the Milton Bradley Company, and co-founded Terrapin Software – a producer of computer software for elementary schools.

By 1930, he co-founded one of the giant studios of the 1930s, Lianhua Film Company with Law Ming-yau.

Elisha Gray ( August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901 ) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company.

Hernan Behn co-founded the Puerto Rico Telephone Company which eventually spawned ITT.

After his return from active duty serving his country, Colonel Behn co-founded the Puerto Rico Telephone Company which eventually spawned ITT Under his direction ITT was granted the monopoly of telephone service in Spain ( Compañía Telefónica Nacional de España ) in 1924, and purchased the international division of Western Electric.

About the same time he co-founded SUAL Holding, later incorporated into RUSAL Company, which since grew to control Russia's largest aluminum business and is ranked first in the world.

In 1835, Carey co-founded the famous Franklin Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia.

* July 25 – John Jacob Bausch, German-American optician who co-founded Bausch & Lomb ( d. 1926 )

Kenneth Harry Olsen ( February 20, 1926 – February 6, 2011 ) was an American engineer who co-founded Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC ) in 1957 with colleague Harlan Anderson.

In 1926 he co-founded the Prague Linguistic Circle ( Pražský lingvistický kroužek ).

Jakobson left Moscow for Prague in 1920 and in 1926 co-founded the Prague Linguistic Circle, which embodied similar interests, especially in the work of Ferdinand de Saussure.

In 1978, Blank co-founded Home Depot with Bernie Marcus.

Some music historians argue that Chicanos of Los Angeles in the late 1970s might have independently co-founded punk rock along with the already-acknowledged founders from British-European sources when introduced to the US in major cities.

Caltech's mascot is the Beaver, and its teams ( with the exception of the fencing team ) play in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, which Caltech co-founded in 1915.

In 1963, Alston co-founded Spiral with Romare Bearden and Hale Woodruff.

In 1917, Eastman co-founded a radical journal of politics, art, and literature, The Liberator, with her brother Max.

In the same year, she co-founded London School of Medicine for Women with Sophie Jex-Blake and became a lecturer in what was the only teaching hospital in Britain to offer courses for women.

He co-founded the company Tactical Studies Rules ( TSR, Inc .) with childhood friend Don Kaye in 1973.

In 1967, Gygax co-founded the International Federation of Wargamers ( IFW ) with Bill Speer and Scott Duncan.

In 1995, Stephen Greenberg co-founded Classic Sports Network with Brian Bedol, which was purchased by ESPN and became ESPN Classic.

In 1974, Jeffry Hyman co-founded the punk rock band the Ramones with friends John Cummings and Douglas Colvin, upon which point all three adopted stage names using " Ramone " as their surname: Cummings became Johnny Ramone, Colvin became Dee Dee Ramone, and Hyman became Joey Ramone.

In 1993, Kemp, Bennett, Kirkpatrick and financial backer Theodore Forstmann co-founded the free market advocacy group Empower America, which later merged with Citizens for a Sound Economy to form Freedom Works.

He pioneered the policy of non-alignment and co-founded the Non-Aligned Movement of nations professing neutrality between the rival blocs of nations led by the U. S. and the U. S. S. R. Recognising the People's Republic of China soon after its founding ( while most of the Western bloc continued relations with the Republic of China ), Nehru argued for its inclusion in the United Nations and refused to brand the Chinese as the aggressors in their conflict with Korea.

Trotsky also co-founded Nachalo (" The Beginning ") with Parvus and the Mensheviks, which proved to be very successful.

Before going into film-making, Anderson was a prominent film critic writing for the influential Sequence magazine ( 1947 – 52 ), which he co-founded with Gavin Lambert and Karel Reisz ; later writing for the British Film Institute's journal Sight and Sound and the left-wing political weekly the New Statesman.

In 1909, disappointed with the Verein, he co-founded the German Sociological Association ( Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, or DGS ) and served as its first treasurer.

Through a career that has spanned nearly fifty years, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a maker of animated feature films and, along with Isao Takahata, co-founded Studio Ghibli, a film and animation studio.

Following the success of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Miyazaki co-founded the animation production company Studio Ghibli with Takahata in 1985, and has produced nearly all of his subsequent work through it.

He co-founded The Goon Show radio show with Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, but appeared in only the first 38 shows on the BBC Light Programme from 1951 to 1953.

He was critical of its ties with Fine Gael and had co-founded the short lived Socialist Labour Party in 1977 after leaving the Labour Party.

In 1999, de Icaza, along with Nat Friedman, co-founded Helix Code, a GNOME-oriented free software company that employed a large number of other GNOME hackers.

In November 2010, Abdul launched and co-founded AuditionBooth. com, a website that allows aspiring talents to connect with casting directors, producers, and managers.

Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1975, and began marketing a BASIC programming language interpreter.